I thought I would expound on the lopsided wealth distribution in this country.

The latest population figures I found said there are approximately 312,102,640 people residing in this country. Of that number, 10 percent or 31,210,264 people control 71 percent of all the wealth in this country. And 1 percent (3,121,026) of our population controls 38 percent of all the wealth in this country, which leaves just 29 percent of all the wealth in this country to be divided up among the remaining 90 percent of the population or 280,892,376 people.

Now I don”t advocate punishing the entrepreneur for being successful. Those who work hard to succeed should have better stuff than lazy goof-offs that put no effort into improving themselves. However, a rich civilized society such as ours should have a minimum living standard for everyone.

That doesn”t mean everyone should have a beautiful home and a nice late model car. But it does mean everyone should have adequate food and clothing and a place other than the street or some underpass to sleep at night.

Taking more from the super rich in the way of taxes in order to provide this minimum is not immoral.But allowing multiple thousands to suffer and die while protecting the purse of the very few is.